CAROL MARSH AFRICAN FILMS NO. 1

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 367431).

Synopsis

1) Native troops (in Northern Nigeria?) parading at small barracks or guardpost; 2) Africans along a road; 3) river with waterfalls; 4) aerial shots of landscape; 5) white men erecting or standing at some kind of aerial; 6) teaparty in garden with white civilians; 7) native huts with stone carved doorways; 8) scenes in a native village, market, etc. 9) white man with native men, talking and looking at a letter; 10) native bearers carry goods, etc. for a white man; 11) portraits of Africans, one with patterned-scarred cheeks; 12) portrait of African in an army (?) uniform; 13) two white men and servants (?) cross a rope suspension bridge across a river; 14) shots of a native village. Man working in fields. Portrait of his scarred face; 15) scenes in a native village with women sitting with their wares and a man building a hut with mud, etc.; 16) shots of a town; men dyeing cloth in indigo dye pits at open air dye vats; 17) more general, high shots of a biggish native town. Possibly all shot in Northern Nigeria on the Jos Plateau.

 

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Titles

  • BRENAN NO. 1 (Alternative)
  • CAROL MARSH AFRICAN FILMS NO. 1 (Archive)
 

Technical Data

Year:
1940
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm Film
Colour:
Black/White
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
288 ft
 

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